“What is freedom without equality? Oppression. What is equality without freedom? Oppression.” The power of being equal and the power of self-determination attributed to the will depend on each other to co-exist in the world. Throughout generations, decades, years, the same debate continues over the balance between equal rights and individual freedom in a true democracy. But can freedom still exist without equality? A well respected and influential French politic theorist Alexis De Tocqueville believes that equality is stronger than anything, even greater cause than having his freedom. He mentioned in one of his famous work Democracy in America: “In our day freedom cannot be established without its support and to despotism itself cannot reign without it...” (482); he strongly states his belief on sacrificing rather than be controlled. As daring as I can be, I challenge his belief and stand with my argument that equality is not a required factor to maintain freedom in democracy. Rewinding back to 411 BC, an Athenian historian, a political philosopher, and a General named Thucydides had a different view. During the Peloponnesian War (431 to 404 BC), he states that Athenian soldiers will battle for their country rather than being equal to their own enemies. “We do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbor for doing what he likes, or even to indulges in those injurious looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they inflict no real harm”(112). Freedom allows society to go in any direction it chooses, even if it is towards an unequal society. The Athenians chooses to fight their enemies and hoping to protect what is theirs, their state, also for their freedom. “We have done nothing extraordinary, nothing contrary to human nature in accepting an empire when it was offered to us and then in refusing to give it up”. After all, the war was caused by the growth in power of Athenians empire that leads the Sparta